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Getting Started

Introduction
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- Modeling Your First Process
Installation
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- System Requirements
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- Platform Diagnostics
- Windows
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- AWS
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- Python Install
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- Windows Python Setup Guide
- Troubleshooting M-Star Pre/Post start up
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Tutorials
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Knowledge Base
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  - “No Fluid” Related Errors
- M-Star Pre or Post does not start up on AWS on a Windows instance
- CUDA-aware MPI
- NVRTC compilation error (Linux)
- Understanding GPU peer access
- Solver start up delay

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Child Geometry
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Fluid
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Create
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Solve
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M-Star Solve

Running the Solver
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M-Star Post

Post Processing
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Scaling Performance

M-Star API

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Validation / Literature
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- Flow in the Trailing Vortex of an Impeller
Theory
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Architecture Technical Overview
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References

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Types of Averaging¶

Predicting Forces on Solid Bodies

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